This introduction emphasizes the value of an anthropological lens within
the research on private security. Although much scholarly work has been conducted
on private security throughout the past decades, anthropological attention for this
subject was somewhat delayed. Yet, the works that have emerged from this discipline
through ethnographic fieldwork have provided new and different types of insights,
namely bottom-up understandings that explore the daily practices and performances
of security and the experiences of the security actors themselves, that other disciplines
can unquestionably draw from. As the introductory piece of this section, it also familiarizes
the four articles that constitute various “ethnographies of private security.”

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